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- 2010-03-02 KV5CY
125 One in four chiropractors under investigation for false advertising because they sued Simon Singh for calling them "bogus".
- 2008-10-16 PQ2MJ
97 Inside the new unibody MacBook Pro.
- 2010-03-01 6PPC2
86 Apple's successor to the iPad.
- 2010-03-03 TD7NF
82 Nicholas Weaver reviews DNScurve and concludes it is catastrophically bad.
- 2010-03-03 WMR82
73 Why DRM doesn't work.
- 2010-03-02 7DMHX
72 Koreans use sausages to control their iPhones in cold weather, because gloved hands don't work.
- 2010-03-09 G2PDN
64 Cambridgeshire County Council enumerates the guided busway screwups that their contractor refuses to fix.
- 2010-03-05 DP5XV
49 There really is a liberal atheist intelligentsia.
- 2010-03-08 F6VTG
48 Scott and scurvy - how, in the second half of the nineteenth century, the cure for scurvy was lost.
- 2010-03-01 9VTG2
46 California wages war against the great evil that is flavoured vodka.
- 2010-03-03 WPN9Y
45 What is the worst class/variable/function name you have ever encountered?
- 2010-03-11 CFND8
45 The unspoken British constitution.
- 2010-03-05 J9V27
44 Liberal atheists are not actually much more intelligent than the others.
- 2010-03-09 YGCR2
42 Stack Overflow's best programming jokes.
- 2010-03-04 DDCV2
42 Yorkshireman prosecuted for joking on Twitter about bombs.
- 2010-03-02 RTVL9
41 Quick reference sheet: your rights if you get stopped by the police in the UK.
- 2010-03-02 W6Y7K
40 The Cambridge tartan.
- 2010-03-01 GZ5CD
40 Inside the iPad A4 chip.
- 2010-03-05 ZTHL6
38 Paul Vixie says DNScurve doesn't solve any important problems, whereas DNSSEC does.
- 2010-03-03 LZB6J
36 UK libel law is being used to suppress inconvenient scientific results.
- 2010-03-01 Z2V52
35 ENISA's guide to deploying DNSSEC.
- 2010-03-08 MNP9M
34 The first rule of formal logic club is ...
- 2010-03-08 CWHH8
32 Strobeshnik: a clock hacked together from a hard disk drive.
- 2010-03-09 YMMK8
31 Reddit discusses LuaJIT with its author Mike Pall.
- 2009-12-30 K57C2
31 Brian Krebs has a new web site to replace the Washington Post "Security Fix" blog.
- 2010-03-04 P92K7
30 Apple drops the iPhone patent bomb on HTC.
- 2010-03-10 G28LH
30 A working implementation of Codd's self-replicating cellular automaton - bonkers and amazing.
- 2010-03-07 CJNZ9
30 Jonathan Rees's security kernel based on the Lambda Calculus.
- 2010-03-10 8JBLC
27 The Aegis software configuration management system.
- 2010-03-07 YCG9D
26 YikeBike folding elecric bicycle.
- 2008-04-28 QHGYH
26 Rubik's cube can be solved in 25 moves or fewer (proved by Thomas Rokicki, also known for a hashlife implementation).
- 2010-03-11 GJ57T
26 The 100 most expensive petrochemical accidents.
- 2010-03-04 BT797
26 Kiosk mode on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
- 2010-03-09 2NX2W
26 Does a Lava Lamp work in a high-gravity environment such as Jupiter?
- 2010-03-02 2DRF9
25 Packrat parsers can support left recursion.
- 2010-03-10 ZZBR6
23 2012 is the centenary of Alan Turing, marathon runner and computer scientist.
- 2010-03-03 665TY
23 DENIC now allows 2LDs to register DS records in their DNSSEC testbed.
- 2010-03-04 2KJCM
20 Guide to creating kiosks on Mac OS X - plus demo app for tweaking the user interface.
- 2010-03-05 ZXCH6
19 Ignition! An informal history of liquid rocket propellants.
- 2010-03-02 ZBBV6
19 A neutral collaboration point for everyone involved in "Teaching Open Source".
- 2010-03-04 9PP6N
19 How to auto-hide the menu bar and dock on a per-app basis on Mac OS X.
- 2010-03-10 85CNJ
19 Opt-out form for the NHS national health records database.
- 2010-03-03 XYLC8
18 DNSSEC deployment is on track, says Verisign.
- 2002-12-20 1TXWH
17 Confessions of a Local Authority Cycling Officer.
- 2010-03-11 Y222V
16 .ARPA TLD to be signed by 2010-03-18.
- 2010-02-27 PHM5M
11 The Munich taxicab experiment - risk compensation and anti-lock brakes.
- 2010-02-25 PXZ5K
10 Like, Python. (heh)
- 2009-11-17 BHQXJ
8 Securityfix article about donotreply.com.
- 2007-04-25 ZDADD
7 Highly automated RAID box.
- 2009-07-28 K965F
7 The Birthday Calendar: a modest proposal for calendar reform.
- 2010-03-01 TJ9ND
6 Addressing the outmoded swapping and paging strategy in Mac OS X.
- 2009-11-14 T7ZK5
6 Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger.
- 2009-03-14 B92BY
6 Unusual clock designs.
- 2010-02-25 6ZC5G
6 The film companies keep telling you pirated DVDs are worse, hoping you won't find out they are better.
- 2009-04-10 XTDX9
5 A scientific approach to soft boiled eggs.
- 2007-04-02 XGVAD
5 Information software and the graphical interface.
- 2010-02-24 WBGZ2
5 What is a big salary?
- 2009-09-28 RWP95
5 The US healthcare debate: Jonathan Haidt on how our moral roots skew our reasoning.
- 2010-02-02 JG7P6
5 A discussion about implementing the Game of Life in Haskell.
- 2009-10-16 JG6WL
5 Carter-Ruck still trying to stop Parliament talking about the Minton Report on Trafigura's pollution.
- 2010-02-15 G6FXD
5 Reworking Python's global interpreter lock.
- 2009-12-10 C22KC
5 Preparing k.root-servers.net for a signed root zone.
- 2006-06-28 BWDX3
5 The power of seven.
- 2009-11-24 9XB7L
5 The "Mandelbulb" fractal.
- 2010-01-07 9RHTG
5 Gulf Stream temporarily stopped warming Northern Europe last week.
- 2009-10-09 YRH5B
4 Frank's compulsive guide to postal addresses: effective addressing for international mail from the USA.
- 2010-01-08 V5DC6
4 Google's book scanning technology revealed.
- 2008-12-11 RK0BQ
4 Amazon Web Services IP address ranges.
- 2010-02-23 NZKN6
4 You can be arrested for photography because it is suspicious and anti-social, say the police.
- 2010-02-19 HD7WB
4 How to configure BIND to automatically sign dynamic-update zones for DNSSEC.
- 2009-12-08 DVPD6
4 The Register's units of measurement (2)
- 2009-03-02 C7Y2B
4 The Economist, in Chinese. Just add 240 citizen translators.
- 2010-02-25 BF6TD
4 Using, not losing, your head regarding cycle helmets.
- 2007-08-20 5EZ00
4 Thirteen things to avoid in a blog.
- 2009-03-17 Z2D8T
3 How to get a URL off the Google Safe Browsing list.
- 2009-12-16 Y8NHT
3 Root-DNSSEC.org - information about DNSSEC for the root zone.
- 2010-01-06 XVX7J
3 Unison claims to be "the best usenet browser".
- 2009-12-23 X9V65
3 Apple's loss of ZFS.
- 2009-11-03 WD7NP
3 A Lua libevent binding designed to be a drop-in replacement for copas.
- 2009-07-01 VVKK9
3 Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?
- 2006-06-26 VRY7X
3 Rethinking the design of presentation slides.
- 2009-02-17 VC4PK
3 Unusual signs of independent thought from the BCS.
- 2007-10-04 V586E
3 Chad Fowler on the dangers of the big software rewrite.
- 2008-08-14 V1QJT
3 Why film schools teach screenwriters not to pass the Bechdel test.
- 2006-12-20 U0Q8A
3 A translation of Gregory's Papal Bull on calendar reform.
- 2007-11-09 TZ2Y8
3 Surf.NL Copyright Toolbox.
- 2009-12-16 T6F52
3 Current status of DNSSEC in various TLDs.
- 2009-12-11 RZ8TY
3 A silly shipping forecast. (YouTube)
- 2010-02-23 RTDL9
3 Bjørn Lomborg is a liar and a fraud.
- 2009-12-19 RL2L6
3 Has AT&T Wireless data congestion been self-inflicted?
- 2008-06-25 R6BHC
3 Plugin pros and cons.
- 2010-02-22 KYZ27
3 USA penalises other countries for supporting open source procurement.
- 2009-11-04 KX7NL
3 Fully countering "Trusting Trust" by diverse double-compiling.
- 2009-10-22 KR6JN
3 Defending your cred against sexist (or otherwise biased) audiences.
- 2009-02-23 KC6WT
3 Implementation errors (buffer overflows, null dereferences, etc.) in NIST SHA competition entries.
- 2009-12-14 JZR9B
3 .US TLD now signed with DNSSEC.
- 2009-10-12 HYGD7
3 Guardian gagged from reporting parliament, in contravention of the 1688 Bill of Rights.
- 2009-03-02 HX5CB
3 Eight design patterns for errorproofing.
- 2009-11-24 HW9VJ
3 The first person to be jailed in the UK for witholding encryption keys.
- 2009-02-03 HP0BD
3 Safe threading for Python, without the global interpreter lock.
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